they're still the equivalent to an abortion rather than staying safe in the first place

and in the interim between browsing the web and running them, you may well have already given all your credit details to compromised servers in russia (the recent IE security alert involved a compromised advert server, IE users who visited websites such as MSN were likely to become infected with a key logger)

ever seen one of those really funny websites that opens your cd tray? think for a second how much control a simple web site has to have over your system to do that.

and how much do microsoft care about it? amongst other official security fixes, i think "don't click hyperlinks, type all urls by hand to ensure they're not spoofed" is in effect. (http://support.microsoft.com/default...5Bln%5D;833786)